Blue Gate Bellini is a full Peruvian female. She is the daughter of our Snowmass Red Hot Cognac and OAR's Summer Solstice (Hemingway line). She has great conformation and incredibly fine fleece. Bellini is the result of a careful breeding decision to combine dam and sire genetics for a super outcome. She arrived a bit early and needed some extra help for 48 hours, but since then she has not looked back and is affectionately known around the farm as "the tank." Her sire is our elite Peruvian stud Snowmass Red Hot Cognac. Cognac brings a rare line of of fine fleece Peruvian genetics in color. His sire is 5Peruvian Red Hot, an in-utero import who stands as part of the North American Alpaca Stud. His rare color genetics are infused into the elite herd at Snowmass Alpacas and at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm. Cognac's dam is the daughter of 6Peruvian Silent Night, arguably one of the best black imports from Peru - giving Cognac some outstanding color genetics. Bellini's dam is OAR's Summer Solstice, a product of the Omineca breeding program in Canada. Summer has held on to her very fine fleece into her breeding years. Her sire is Peruvian Canadar, a Hemingway son out of an amazingly fine Sollocota dam, who recently became a featured member of the StudMaster program at Northwest Alpacas. Canadar progeny are a rare commodity and we are proud to have Summer in our herd. Summer's dam is Jolimont 2Peruvian Tranquila. The combination of Cognac's Sollocota genetics with Summer's Alianza/Sollocota genetics produced a fine young female with rich color and very fine fleece. We love how this girl has developed. Her maiden breeding was to Snowmass Andean Night, a stunning producer of quality dark fleeced alpacas from the Snowmass Andean Bronze line. Bellini delivered a gorgeous, fabulously fleeced, dark fawn female from this breeding. We will likely keep Andean Trio in our foundation herd, so we would consider selling this outstanding production female. Bellini bred to our multi-champion RobAsia's Albus to see how Albus does with color. This result is an amazing line up of genetic goodness. Her cria Blue Gate Tempest is simply fantastic. Bellini is bred back to Albus for a Spring '18 cria.